tidalwaveengineer's Personal Name List
Zella
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Rating: 65% based on 2 votes
Meaning unknown, possibly an invented name. It arose in the 19th century.
Zekiel
Gender: Masculine
Usage: American (Modern, Rare)
Pronounced: ZEE-kee-əl
Rating: 67% based on 3 votes
Xavier
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, French, Portuguese, Catalan, Spanish
Pronounced: ZAY-vyər(English) ig-ZAY-vyər(English) GZA-VYEH(French) shu-vee-EHR(European Portuguese) sha-vee-EKH(Brazilian Portuguese) shə-bee-EH(Catalan) kha-BYEHR(Spanish) sa-BYEHR(Spanish)
Rating: 57% based on 3 votes
Derived from the Basque place name
Etxeberria meaning
"the new house". This was the surname of the Jesuit priest
Saint Francis Xavier (1506-1552) who was born in a village by this name. He was a missionary to India, Japan, China, and other areas in East Asia, and he is the patron saint of the Orient and missionaries. His surname has since been adopted as a given name in his honour, chiefly among Catholics.
Xanthe
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology, Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Ξάνθη(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: KSAN-TEH(Classical Greek)
Rating: 90% based on 3 votes
Derived from Greek
ξανθός (xanthos) meaning
"yellow, blond, fair-haired". This was the name of a few minor figures in Greek
mythology.
Winton
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: WIN-tən
Rating: 70% based on 2 votes
From a surname that was derived from a place name meaning
"enclosure belonging to Wine" in Old English.
Wilder
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Rating: 87% based on 3 votes
From an English surname meaning "wild, untamed, uncontrolled", from Old English wilde.
Wilbert
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Dutch
Pronounced: VIL-bərt
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Means
"bright will", derived from the Old German elements
willo "will, desire" and
beraht "bright".
Vaughn
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: VAWN
Rating: 54% based on 5 votes
From a Welsh surname, a variant of
Vaughan.
Uri
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical, Biblical Latin, Hebrew
Other Scripts: אוּרִי(Hebrew)
Rating: 38% based on 4 votes
Means
"my light" in Hebrew, a possessive form of
אוּר (ʾur) meaning "light". This is the name of the father of Bezalel in the
Old Testament.
Ulysses
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Roman Mythology, English
Pronounced: yoo-LI-seez(Latin) yoo-LIS-eez(American English) YOOL-i-seez(British English)
Rating: 40% based on 3 votes
Latin form of
Odysseus. It was borne by Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885), the commander of the Union forces during the American Civil War, who went on to become an American president. Irish author James Joyce used it as the title of his book
Ulysses (1922), which loosely parallels
Homer's epic the
Odyssey.
Tutti
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: German, Norwegian (Archaic), Popular Culture, Italian
Rating: 27% based on 3 votes
German diminutive of
Gertrude and other names containing the Germanic element
thrud meaning "strength". This was used for one of Barbie's little sisters, now discontinued.
Tuesday
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: TYOOZ-day, TOOZ-day, CHOOZ-day
Rating: 93% based on 3 votes
From the English word for the day of the week, which derives from Old English
tiwesdæg meaning "
Tiw's day".
Tressa
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Cornish (Modern)
Pronounced: TRES-sa
Rating: 47% based on 3 votes
Derived from Cornish tressa "third". This is a modern Cornish name.
Thyme
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Rating: 68% based on 4 votes
From Old French thym, from Latin thymum, from Ancient Greek θύμον (thúmon).
Thisbe
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology, Roman Mythology
Other Scripts: Θίσβη(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: TEEZ-BEH(Classical Greek) THIZ-bee(English) TEES-beh(Latin)
Rating: 60% based on 3 votes
From the name of an ancient Greek town in Boeotia, itself supposedly named after a nymph. In a Greek legend (the oldest surviving version appearing in Latin in Ovid's Metamorphoses) this is the name of a young woman from Babylon. Believing her to be dead, her lover Pyramus kills himself, after which she does the same to herself. The splashes of blood from their suicides is the reason mulberry fruit are red.
Theone
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (American, Archaic), Dutch (Rare)
Rating: 53% based on 3 votes
Theodorus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Ancient Greek (Latinized), Dutch
Other Scripts: Θεόδωρος(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: teh-yo-DO-ruys(Dutch)
Rating: 57% based on 3 votes
Latinized form of the Greek name
Theodoros (see
Theodore). As a Dutch name, it is used on birth certificates though a vernacular form such as
Theodoor is typically used in daily life.
Theodora
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Greek, Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Θεοδώρα(Greek)
Pronounced: thee-ə-DAWR-ə(English)
Rating: 88% based on 4 votes
Feminine form of
Theodore. This name was common in the Byzantine Empire, being borne by several empresses including the influential wife of Justinian in the 6th century.
Thea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, English
Pronounced: TEH-a(German) THEE-ə(English)
Rating: 82% based on 5 votes
Thaddeus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, Biblical, Biblical Latin
Other Scripts: Θαδδαῖος(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: THAD-ee-əs(English) tha-DEE-əs(English)
Rating: 35% based on 4 votes
From
Θαδδαῖος (Thaddaios), the Greek form of the Aramaic name
תַדַּי (Ṯaddai). It is possibly derived from Aramaic
תַּד (taḏ) meaning
"heart, breast", but it may in fact be an Aramaic form of a Greek name such as
Θεόδωρος (see
Theodore). In the Gospel of Matthew, Thaddaeus is listed as one of the twelve apostles, though elsewhere in the
New Testament his name is omitted and
Jude's appears instead. It is likely that the two names refer to the same person.
Thaddea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English (Rare), Filipino (Rare), German (Rare)
Pronounced: THAD-ee-ə(English)
Rating: 47% based on 3 votes
Sylvie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French, Czech
Pronounced: SEEL-VEE(French) SIL-vi-yeh(Czech)
Rating: 60% based on 4 votes
French and Czech form of
Silvia.
Silas
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, Greek, Danish, German, Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Σίλας(Greek)
Pronounced: SIE-ləs(English)
Rating: 80% based on 6 votes
The name of a companion of
Saint Paul in the
New Testament. It is probably a short form of
Silvanus, a name that Paul calls him by in the epistles. It is possible that
Silvanus and
Silas were Latin and Greek forms of the Hebrew name
Saul (via Aramaic).
As an English name it was not used until after the Protestant Reformation. It was utilized by George Eliot for the title character in her novel Silas Marner (1861).
Sherwood
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: SHUR-wuwd
Rating: 68% based on 4 votes
From an English place name (or from a surname that was derived from it) meaning "bright forest". This was the name of the forest in which the legendary outlaw Robin Hood made his home.
Seaborn
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Puritan)
Rating: 33% based on 3 votes
Transferred use of the surname
Seaborn, though in the case of many Puritans, it was given to children born at sea.
Rowan
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Irish, English (Modern)
Pronounced: RO-ən(English)
Rating: 80% based on 6 votes
Anglicized form of the Irish name
Ruadhán. As an English name, it can also be derived from the surname Rowan, itself derived from the Irish given name. It could also be given in reference to the rowan tree, a word of Old Norse origin (coincidentally sharing the same Indo-European root meaning "red" with the Irish name).
Roscoe
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: RAHS-ko
Rating: 45% based on 4 votes
From an English surname, originally derived from a place name, itself derived from Old Norse rá "roebuck" and skógr "wood, forest".
River
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: RIV-ər
Rating: 81% based on 7 votes
From the English word that denotes a flowing body of water. The word is ultimately derived (via Old French) from Latin ripa "riverbank".
Pim
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Dutch
Pronounced: PIM
Rating: 40% based on 2 votes
Peregrine
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: PEHR-ə-grin
Rating: 50% based on 4 votes
From the Late Latin name
Peregrinus, which meant
"traveller". This was the name of several early
saints.
Penrose
Gender: Masculine
Usage: American (Rare)
Rating: 50% based on 3 votes
Transferred use of the surname
Penrose.
Orielle
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Hebrew
Rating: 40% based on 2 votes
"My light is God."
Nova
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Swedish (Modern), Dutch (Modern)
Pronounced: NO-və(English) NO-va(Swedish, Dutch)
Rating: 88% based on 6 votes
Derived from Latin novus meaning "new". It was first used as a name in the 19th century.
Nikolao
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Esperanto
Pronounced: nee-ko-LA-o
Rating: 70% based on 3 votes
Moss
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Archaic), Jewish
Pronounced: MAWS(English)
Rating: 65% based on 2 votes
Monroe
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: mən-RO
Rating: 73% based on 3 votes
From a Scottish surname meaning
"from the mouth of the Roe". The Roe is a river in Northern Ireland. Two famous bearers of the surname were American president James Monroe (1758-1831) and American actress Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962).
As a given name it was mostly masculine in America until around 2009. It was already rising in popularity for girls when singer Mariah Carey gave it to her daughter born 2011 (though this probably helped accelerate it).
Miloš
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Czech, Slovak, Serbian, Slovene, Croatian, Macedonian
Other Scripts: Милош(Serbian, Macedonian)
Pronounced: MI-losh(Czech) MEE-lawsh(Slovak) MEE-losh(Serbian, Croatian)
Rating: 68% based on 4 votes
Originally a
diminutive of names beginning with the Slavic element
milŭ meaning
"gracious, dear". This was the name of a 14th-century Serbian hero who apparently killed the Ottoman sultan Murad I at the Battle of Kosovo.
Milo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, Germanic [1]
Pronounced: MIE-lo(English)
Rating: 68% based on 5 votes
Old German form of
Miles, as well as the Latinized form. This form was revived as an English name in the 19th century
[2].
Miles
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: MIELZ
Rating: 58% based on 5 votes
From the Germanic name
Milo, introduced by the
Normans to England in the form
Miles. The meaning is not known for certain. It is possibly connected to the Slavic name element
milŭ meaning
"gracious, dear". From an early date it was associated with Latin
miles meaning
"soldier".
A notable bearer was the American musician Miles Davis (1926-1991). In Scotland this name was historically used to Anglicize Maoilios.
Meriwether
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: MEHR-i-wedh-ər
Rating: 47% based on 3 votes
From a surname meaning "happy weather" in Middle English, originally belonging to a cheery person. A notable bearer of the name was Meriwether Lewis (1774-1809), who, with William Clark, explored the west of North America.
Meredith
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Welsh, English
Pronounced: MEHR-ə-dith(English)
Rating: 56% based on 5 votes
From the Welsh name
Maredudd or
Meredydd, from Old Welsh forms such as
Margetud, possibly from
mawredd "greatness, magnificence" combined with
iudd "lord". The Welsh forms of this name were well used through the Middle Ages. Since the mid-1920s it has been used more often for girls than for boys in English-speaking countries, though it is still a masculine name in Wales. A famous bearer of this name as surname was the English novelist and poet George Meredith (1828-1909).
Matthias
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German, French, Dutch, Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Ματθίας, Μαθθίας(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: ma-TEE-as(German) MA-TYAS(French) mah-TEE-yahs(Dutch) mə-THIE-əs(English) MAT-tee-as(Latin)
Rating: 58% based on 4 votes
From Greek
Ματθίας (Matthias), a variant of
Ματθαῖος (see
Matthew). This form appears in the
New Testament as the name of the apostle chosen to replace the traitor
Judas Iscariot. This was also the name of kings of Hungary (spelled
Mátyás in Hungarian), including Matthias I who made important reforms to the kingdom in the 15th century.
Matteo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: mat-TEH-o
Rating: 65% based on 4 votes
Maren
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Danish, Norwegian
Pronounced: MAH-rehn(Danish)
Rating: 50% based on 2 votes
Malin
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swedish, Norwegian
Pronounced: MAH-lin
Rating: 50% based on 3 votes
Swedish and Norwegian short form of
Magdalene.
Makoto
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 誠, etc.(Japanese Kanji) まこと(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: MA-KO-TO
Rating: 53% based on 4 votes
From Japanese
誠 (makoto) meaning "sincerity", as well as other kanji or kanji combinations.
Maite 2
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Basque
Pronounced: MIE-teh
Rating: 37% based on 3 votes
Means "beloved" in Basque.
Lincoln
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: LING-kən
Rating: 58% based on 4 votes
From an English surname that was originally from the name of an English city, called Lindum Colonia by the Romans, derived from Brythonic lindo "lake, pool" and Latin colonia "colony". This name is usually given in honour of Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), president of the United States during the American Civil War.
Leif
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Swedish, Norwegian, Danish
Pronounced: LAYF
Rating: 53% based on 3 votes
From the Old Norse name Leifr meaning "descendant, heir". Leif Eriksson was a Norse explorer who reached North America in the early 11th century. He was the son of Erik the Red.
Kitt
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Rating: 60% based on 4 votes
Jonah
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, Biblical
Other Scripts: יוֹנָה(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: JO-nə(English)
Rating: 65% based on 4 votes
From the Hebrew name
יוֹנָה (Yona) meaning
"dove". This was the name of a prophet swallowed by a fish, as told in the
Old Testament Book of Jonah. Jonah was commanded by God to preach in Nineveh, but instead fled by boat. After being caught in a storm, the other sailors threw Jonah overboard, at which point he was swallowed. He emerged from the fish alive and repentant three days later.
Jonah's story was popular in the Middle Ages, and the Hellenized form Jonas was occasionally used in England. The form Jonah did not become common until after the Protestant Reformation.
Isko
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Finnish
Pronounced: IS-kaw
Rating: 53% based on 4 votes
Isadore
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: IZ-ə-dawr
Rating: 58% based on 4 votes
Ira 1
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, Hebrew, Biblical
Other Scripts: עִירָא(Hebrew)
Pronounced: IE-rə(English)
Rating: 40% based on 3 votes
Means
"watchful" in Hebrew. In the
Old Testament this is the name of King
David's priest. As an English Christian given name,
Ira began to be used after the
Protestant Reformation. In the 17th century the
Puritans brought it to America, where remained moderately common into the 20th century.
Ingo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German, Germanic [1]
Pronounced: ING-go(German)
Rating: 33% based on 3 votes
German masculine form of
Inge.
Inga
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic, Estonian, Finnish, Latvian, Lithuanian, German, Polish, Russian, Old Norse [1][2], Germanic [3]
Other Scripts: Инга(Russian)
Pronounced: ING-ah(Swedish) ING-ga(German) EENG-ga(Polish) EEN-gə(Russian)
Rating: 40% based on 3 votes
Strictly feminine form of
Inge.
Indigo
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: IN-di-go
Rating: 56% based on 5 votes
From the English word
indigo for the purplish-blue dye or the colour. It is ultimately derived from Greek
Ἰνδικόν (Indikon) meaning "Indic, from India".
Ilyas
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Arabic
Other Scripts: إلياس(Arabic)
Pronounced: eel-YAS
Rating: 63% based on 3 votes
Holiday
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Modern, Rare)
Pronounced: HAHL-i-day
Rating: 20% based on 5 votes
Transferred use of the surname
Holiday.
Hephzibah
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Biblical
Other Scripts: חֶףְצִי־בָּה(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: HEHF-zi-bə(English) HEHP-zi-bə(English)
Rating: 35% based on 2 votes
Hawthorne
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Rating: 65% based on 4 votes
Ginger
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: JIN-jər
Rating: 43% based on 4 votes
From the English word
ginger for the spice or the reddish-brown colour. It can also be a
diminutive of
Virginia, as in the case of actress and dancer Ginger Rogers (1911-1995), by whom the name was popularized.
Gianluca
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Italian
Pronounced: jan-LOO-ka
Rating: 37% based on 3 votes
Fritz
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German
Pronounced: FRITS
Rating: 40% based on 6 votes
Friday
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (African)
Pronounced: FRIE-day
Rating: 45% based on 4 votes
From the English word for the day of the week, which was derived from Old English
frigedæg meaning "
Frig's day". Daniel Defoe used it for a character in his novel
Robinson Crusoe (1719). As a given name, it is most often found in parts of Africa, such as Nigeria and Zambia.
Francisco
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Spanish, Portuguese
Pronounced: fran-THEES-ko(European Spanish) fran-SEES-ko(Latin American Spanish) frun-SEESH-koo(European Portuguese) frun-SEES-koo(Brazilian Portuguese)
Rating: 65% based on 4 votes
Spanish and Portuguese form of
Franciscus (see
Francis). This is the Spanish name of
Saint Francis Xavier (1506-1552). Other notable bearers include the Spanish painter and engraver Francisco de Goya (1746-1828) and the Spanish dictator Francisco Franco (1892-1975).
Florrie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: FLAWR-ee
Rating: 38% based on 4 votes
Felix
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, English, Romanian, Ancient Roman, Biblical, Biblical Latin
Pronounced: FEH-liks(German, Dutch, Swedish) FEE-liks(English) FEH-leeks(Latin)
Rating: 66% based on 7 votes
From a Roman
cognomen meaning
"lucky, successful" in Latin. It was acquired as an
agnomen, or nickname, by the 1st-century BC Roman general Sulla. It also appears in the
New Testament belonging to the governor of Judea who imprisoned
Saint Paul.
Due to its favourable meaning, this name was popular among early Christians, being borne by many early saints and four popes. It has been used in England since the Middle Ages, though it has been more popular in continental Europe. A notable bearer was the German composer Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847).
Ezra
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, Hebrew, Biblical
Other Scripts: עֶזְרָא(Hebrew)
Pronounced: EHZ-rə(English)
Rating: 78% based on 6 votes
Means
"help" in Hebrew. Ezra is a prophet of the
Old Testament and the author of the Book of Ezra. It has been used as a given name in the English-speaking world since the
Protestant Reformation. The American poet Ezra Pound (1885-1972) was a famous bearer.
Everett
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: EHV-ə-rit, EHV-rit
Rating: 65% based on 4 votes
From an English surname that was derived from the given name
Everard.
Evelyn
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English, German
Pronounced: EHV-ə-lin(English) EEV-lin(British English) EEV-ə-lin(British English) EH-və-leen(German)
Rating: 38% based on 5 votes
From an English surname that was derived from the given name
Aveline. In the 17th century when it was first used as a given name it was more common for boys, but it is now regarded as almost entirely feminine, probably in part because of its similarity to
Eve and
Evelina.
This name was popular throughout the English-speaking world in the early 20th century. It staged a comeback in the early 21st century, returning to the American top ten in 2017.
Euridice
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Italian (Rare)
Rating: 47% based on 3 votes
Eupraxia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Εὐπραξία(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 38% based on 4 votes
From a Greek word meaning
"good conduct", derived from
εὖ (eu) meaning "good" and
πρᾶξις (praxis) meaning "action, exercise".
Eudoxia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Εὐδοξία(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 40% based on 4 votes
From Greek
εὐδοξία (eudoxia) meaning
"good repute, good judgement", itself from
εὖ (eu) meaning "good" and
δόξα (doxa) meaning "notion, reputation, honour".
Etta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: EHT-ə
Rating: 45% based on 4 votes
Short form of
Henrietta and other names that end with
etta. A famous bearer was the American singer Etta James (1938-2012), who took her
stage name from her real given name Jamesetta.
Emeline
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French (Belgian), Flemish, Dutch (Antillean), Dutch (Surinamese), English, Medieval English
Rating: 58% based on 4 votes
Elwood
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: EHL-wuwd
Rating: 53% based on 4 votes
From an English surname that was derived from a place name meaning "elder tree forest" in Old English.
Elsbeth
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Scots (Rare), German
Rating: 40% based on 3 votes
Elinor
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: EHL-ə-nawr
Rating: 63% based on 3 votes
Elihu
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical, Biblical Hebrew [1], English (Archaic)
Other Scripts: אֶלִיהוּא(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: i-LIE-hyoo(English) ee-LIE-hyoo(English)
Rating: 47% based on 3 votes
Means
"my God is he" in Hebrew, from
אֵל (ʾel) meaning "God" and
הוּא (hu) meaning "he". This is the name of several characters in the
Old Testament including one of the friends of
Job.
Elias
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Portuguese, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, English, Dutch, Greek, Amharic, Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Ηλίας(Greek) ኤልያስ(Amharic) Ἠλίας(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: i-LEE-ush(European Portuguese) eh-LEE-us(Brazilian Portuguese) eh-LEE-as(German) EH-lee-ahs(Finnish) i-LIE-əs(English) ee-LIE-əs(English) EH-lee-yahs(Dutch)
Rating: 87% based on 6 votes
Form of
Elijah used in several languages. This is also the form used in the Greek
New Testament, as well as some English translations.
Eli 1
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, Hebrew, Biblical, Biblical Greek [1], Biblical Hebrew [2]
Other Scripts: עֵלִי(Hebrew) Ἠλί, Ἡλί(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: EE-lie(English)
Rating: 70% based on 4 votes
Means
"ascension" in Hebrew, a derivative of
עָלָה (ʿala) meaning "to ascend". In the Books of Samuel in the
Old Testament he is a high priest of the Israelites. He took the young
Samuel into his service and gave him guidance when God spoke to him. Because of the misdeeds of his sons, Eli and his descendants were cursed to die before reaching old age.
Eli has been used as an English Christian given name since the Protestant Reformation. A notable bearer was the American inventor of the cotton gin Eli Whitney (1765-1825).
Elara
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἐλάρα(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: EHL-ə-rə(English)
Rating: 55% based on 2 votes
Possibly derived from Greek
ἄλαρα (alara) meaning
"hazelnut, spear-shaft". In Greek
mythology Elara was one of
Zeus's mortal lovers and by him the mother of the giant Tityos. A moon of Jupiter bears this name in her honour.
Eitan
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Hebrew
Other Scripts: אֵיתָן(Hebrew)
Rating: 50% based on 3 votes
Modern Hebrew form of
Ethan.
Edie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: EE-dee
Rating: 40% based on 3 votes
Dorothea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: German, Dutch, English, Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Δωροθέα(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: do-ro-TEH-a(German) dawr-ə-THEE-ə(English)
Rating: 33% based on 3 votes
Feminine form of the Greek name
Δωρόθεος (Dorotheos), which meant
"gift of god" from Greek
δῶρον (doron) meaning "gift" and
θεός (theos) meaning "god". The name
Theodore is composed of the same elements in reverse order. Dorothea was the name of two early
saints, notably the 4th-century martyr Dorothea of Caesarea. It was also borne by the 14th-century Saint Dorothea of Montau, who was the patron saint of Prussia.
Daisuke
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Japanese
Other Scripts: 大輔, etc.(Japanese Kanji) だいすけ(Japanese Hiragana)
Pronounced: DA-EE-SOO-KEH, DA-EE-SKEH
Rating: 30% based on 3 votes
From Japanese
大 (dai) meaning "big, great" and
輔 (suke) meaning "help". Other kanji combinations are possible.
Cobalt
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: KO-bahlt
Rating: 55% based on 4 votes
From the metal or the shade of blue. Derived from German kobold, a type of house spirit. This in turn, has a few possible etymologies. One is that it come from Greek koba'los, meaning "rogue". Another theory is that it comes from the Old High German root chubisi, "house, building, hut" and the suffix -old meaning "to rule".
Clyde
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: KLIED
Rating: 48% based on 4 votes
From the name of the River Clyde in Scotland, from Cumbric
Clud, which is of uncertain origin. It became a common given name in America in the middle of the 19th century, perhaps in honour of Colin Campbell (1792-1863) who was given the title Baron Clyde in 1858
[1].
Claude
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: French, English
Pronounced: KLOD(French) KLAWD(English)
Rating: 48% based on 5 votes
French masculine and feminine form of
Claudius. In France the masculine name has been common since the Middle Ages due to the 7th-century
Saint Claude of Besançon. It was imported to Britain in the 16th century by the aristocratic Hamilton family, who had French connections. A famous bearer of this name was the French impressionist painter Claude Monet (1840-1926).
Celie
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Swedish (Rare), Danish (Rare), Literature
Pronounced: SEE-lee(English)
Rating: 37% based on 3 votes
Adoption of French
Célie outside the francophone world. This form of the name was used in Alice Walker's 1982 epistolary novel
The Color Purple.
Celeste
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, English
Pronounced: cheh-LEH-steh(Italian) theh-LEHS-teh(European Spanish) seh-LEHS-teh(Latin American Spanish) sə-LEST(English)
Rating: 64% based on 5 votes
Italian feminine and masculine form of
Caelestis. It is also the Portuguese, Spanish and English feminine form.
Calista
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Portuguese (Rare), Spanish (Rare)
Pronounced: kə-LIS-tə(English) ka-LEES-ta(Spanish)
Rating: 65% based on 4 votes
Feminine form of
Callistus. As an English name it might also be a variant of
Kallisto.
Calder
Gender: Masculine
Usage: American
Rating: 57% based on 3 votes
Transferred use of the surname
Calder.
Bukkiah
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical
Rating: 25% based on 2 votes
From a root Hebrew word meaning "flask".
In the bible book of 1Chronicles Bukkiah was chosen by David to head one of the 24 musical groups.
Bracken
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Rating: 40% based on 3 votes
Transferred use of the surname
Bracken.
Boaz
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical, Hebrew, Dutch, Biblical Hebrew [1]
Other Scripts: בֹּעַז(Hebrew)
Pronounced: BO-az(English) BO-ahz(Dutch)
Rating: 35% based on 4 votes
Means
"swiftness" in Hebrew. In the
Old Testament this is the name of the man who marries
Ruth. This was also the name of one of the two pillars that stood outside Solomon's Temple (with
Jachin).
Bellamy
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Rating: 53% based on 3 votes
From an English surname derived from Old French bel ami meaning "beautiful friend".
Beckett
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Modern)
Pronounced: BEHK-it
Rating: 43% based on 4 votes
From an English surname that could be derived from various sources, including from Middle English bec meaning "beak" or bekke meaning "stream, brook".
Barrett
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: BAR-it, BEHR-it
Rating: 13% based on 4 votes
From a surname probably meaning "quarrelsome, deceptive" in Middle English, originally given to a quarrelsome person.
Azzur
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical
Rating: 40% based on 2 votes
Meaning "One Offering Help".
1. Father of the false prophet Hananiah from Gibeon.—Jer 28:1.
2. Father of Jaazaniah, who was one of the “princes of the people” among the 25 men Ezekiel envisioned “scheming hurtfulness and advising bad counsel” against Jerusalem.—Eze 11:1, 2.
3. One of “the heads of the people” whose descendant, if not he himself, attested by seal to Nehemiah’s “trustworthy arrangement.”
Azure
Gender: Feminine & Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Pronounced: AZH-ər
Rating: 82% based on 5 votes
From the English word that means "sky blue". It is ultimately (via Old French, Latin and Arabic) from Persian
لاجورد (lājvard) meaning "azure, lapis lazuli".
Azur
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Bosnian
Rating: 48% based on 4 votes
Bosnian male form of
Azure. Number 96 in top 100 in 2012 for Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Azariah
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Biblical
Other Scripts: עֲזַרְיָה(Ancient Hebrew)
Pronounced: az-ə-RIE-ə(English)
Rating: 53% based on 3 votes
From the Hebrew name
עֲזַרְיָה (ʿAzarya) meaning
"Yahweh has helped", derived from
עָזַר (ʿazar) meaning "help" and
יָהּ (yah) referring to the Hebrew God. This is the name of many
Old Testament characters including of one of the three men the Babylonian king ordered cast into a fiery furnace. His Babylonian name was
Abednego.
Autumn
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: AW-təm
Rating: 78% based on 6 votes
From the name of the season, ultimately from Latin autumnus. This name has been in general use since the 1960s.
Atticus
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Literature, Ancient Greek (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Ἀττικός(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: AT-i-kəs(English)
Rating: 78% based on 6 votes
Latinized form of Greek
Ἀττικός (Attikos) meaning
"from Attica", referring to the region surrounding Athens in Greece. This name was borne by a few notable Greeks from the Roman period (or Romans of Greek background). The author Harper Lee used the name in her novel
To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) for an Alabama lawyer who defends a black man accused of raping a white woman.
Athene
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἀθήνη(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: A-TEH-NEH(Classical Greek)
Rating: 62% based on 5 votes
Athena
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology, English
Other Scripts: Ἀθηνᾶ(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: A-TEH-NA(Classical Greek) ə-THEE-nə(English)
Rating: 81% based on 7 votes
Meaning unknown. Athena was the Greek goddess of wisdom and warfare and the patron goddess of the city of Athens in Greece. It is likely that her name is derived from that of the city, not vice versa. The earliest mention of her seems to be a 15th-century BC Mycenaean Greek inscription from Knossos on Crete.
The daughter of Zeus, she was said to have sprung from his head fully grown after he impregnated and swallowed her mother Metis. Athena is associated with the olive tree and the owl.
Astrud
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Portuguese (Brazilian, Rare), Filipino, Dutch (Rare), English (Rare)
Rating: 30% based on 1 vote
A famous bearer is Brazilian vocalist Astrud Gilberto (1940-).
Arlotta
Gender: Feminine
Usage: American (Rare, Archaic)
Rating: 25% based on 2 votes
Transferred use of the surname
Arlotta.
Arlo
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: AHR-lo
Rating: 63% based on 4 votes
Meaning uncertain. It was perhaps inspired by the fictional place name Arlo Hill from the poem The Faerie Queene (1590) by Edmund Spenser. Spenser probably got Arlo by altering the real Irish place name Aherlow, meaning "between two highlands".
Ariadne
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology
Other Scripts: Ἀριάδνη(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: A-REE-AD-NEH(Classical Greek) ar-ee-AD-nee(English)
Rating: 47% based on 3 votes
Means
"most holy", composed of the Greek prefix
ἀρι (ari) meaning "most" combined with Cretan Greek
ἀδνός (adnos) meaning "holy". In Greek
mythology, Ariadne was the daughter of King
Minos. She fell in love with
Theseus and helped him to escape the Labyrinth and the Minotaur, but was later abandoned by him. Eventually she married the god
Dionysus.
Ardy
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Indonesian, Filipino
Rating: 20% based on 1 vote
Meaning uncertain.
Ardith
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English
Rating: 57% based on 3 votes
Arden
Gender: Masculine & Feminine
Usage: English
Pronounced: AHR-dən
Rating: 83% based on 4 votes
From an English surname, originally taken from various place names, which were derived from a Celtic word meaning "high".
Arcadia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Spanish (Latin American)
Pronounced: ar-KA-dhya
Rating: 68% based on 4 votes
Feminine form of
Arcadius. This is the name of a region on the Greek Peloponnese, long idealized for its natural beauty.
Antigone
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology, Ancient Greek [1]
Other Scripts: Ἀντιγόνη(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: AN-TEE-GO-NEH(Classical Greek) an-TIG-ə-nee(English)
Rating: 40% based on 3 votes
Derived from Greek
ἀντί (anti) meaning "against, compared to, like" and
γονή (gone) meaning "birth, offspring". In Greek legend Antigone was the daughter of Oedipus and Jocasta. King Creon of Thebes declared that her slain brother Polynices was to remain unburied, a great dishonour. She disobeyed and gave him a proper burial, and for this she was sealed alive in a cave.
Andor 1
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Norwegian
Rating: 10% based on 2 votes
From the Old Norse name
Arnþórr, derived from the element
ǫrn "eagle" combined with the name of the Norse god
Þórr (see
Thor).
Amias
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English (Rare)
Rating: 35% based on 2 votes
Amadea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Late Roman, German, Italian, Sicilian, Hungarian, Galician, Polish, Slovene
Rating: 63% based on 3 votes
Late Roman and German feminine form of
Amadeus, Italian and Galician feminine form of
Amadeo, Sicilian feminine form of
Amadeu, Hungarian and Polish feminine form of
Amadeusz and Slovene variant of
Amadeja.
Alva 1
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Swedish, Norwegian
Pronounced: AL-va(Swedish)
Rating: 53% based on 3 votes
Alban
Gender: Masculine
Usage: German, French, Albanian, English (Rare)
Pronounced: AL-ban(German) AL-BAHN(French) AL-bən(English) AWL-bən(English)
Rating: 53% based on 4 votes
From the Roman
cognomen Albanus, which meant
"from Alba". Alba (from Latin
albus "white") was the name of various places within the Roman Empire, including the city Alba Longa. This name was borne by
Saint Alban, the first British martyr (4th century). According to tradition, he sheltered a fugitive priest in his house. When his house was searched, he disguised himself as the priest, was arrested in his stead, and was beheaded. Another 4th-century martyr by this name was Saint Alban of Mainz.
As an English name, Alban was occasionally used in the Middle Ages and was revived in the 18th century, though it is now uncommon.
Alaric
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Gothic (Anglicized)
Other Scripts: 𐌰𐌻𐌰𐍂𐌴𐌹𐌺𐍃(Gothic)
Pronounced: AL-ə-rik(English)
Rating: 63% based on 4 votes
From the Gothic name *
Alareiks meaning
"ruler of all", derived from the element
alls "all" combined with
reiks "ruler, king". This was the name of a king of the Visigoths who sacked Rome in the 5th century.
Adrastea
Gender: Feminine
Usage: Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Other Scripts: Ἀδράστεια(Ancient Greek)
Rating: 45% based on 4 votes
Latinized form of
Adrasteia. One of Jupiter's moons bears this name.
Adeline
Gender: Feminine
Usage: French, English
Pronounced: A-DU-LEEN(French) AD-ə-lien(English)
Rating: 53% based on 7 votes
French and English form of
Adelina.
Adelia
Gender: Feminine
Usage: English, Spanish
Pronounced: ə-DEHL-ee-ə(English) a-DHEH-lya(Spanish)
Rating: 70% based on 8 votes
Elaborated form of
Adela.
Adalbert
Gender: Masculine
Usage: Germanic [1], German
Pronounced: A-dal-behrt(German)
Rating: 30% based on 7 votes
Old German form of
Albert. This is the name of a patron
saint of Bohemia, Poland and Prussia. He is known by his birth name
Vojtěch in Czech and
Wojciech in Polish.
Abel
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Georgian, Armenian, Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek [1]
Other Scripts: აბელ(Georgian) Աբել(Armenian) הֶבֶל(Ancient Hebrew) Ἄβελ, Ἅβελ(Ancient Greek)
Pronounced: AY-bəl(English) A-BEHL(French) a-BEHL(Spanish, European Portuguese) a-BEW(Brazilian Portuguese) A-bəl(Dutch) ah-BEHL(Eastern Armenian) ah-PEHL(Western Armenian)
Rating: 31% based on 7 votes
From the Hebrew name
הֶבֶל (Hevel) meaning
"breath". In the
Old Testament he is the second son of
Adam and
Eve, murdered out of envy by his brother
Cain. In England, this name came into use during the Middle Ages, and it was common during the
Puritan era.
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